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Starring Tom Baker as the 4th Doctor.

On a distant, barren planet, Storm Mine 4 trawls across bleak deserts and
through fierce duststorms in search of rare and valuable metals. Onboard the
Sandminer is a small skeleton crew, who alternate between indulgent relaxation
and skilled mining work. The mundane, day-to-day duties of the mine are attended
to by a much larger complement of servile robots.

This is a society that is dependent on robots for all areas of life, the
people comforted by the knowledge that the strictest safeguards are built into
each and every robot's program­ming. So when one of the Sandminer crew is
murdered, suspicion falls on two new arrivals…The Doctor and Leela arrive on
board, and are immediately accused of being the suspects. But the Doctor deduces
that the killer is possibly not human. More deaths occur – can he persuade
the remaining crew members that the killer may be a robot?

This story was first broadcast in the UK on BBC1 between 29th January and
19th February 1977.